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...hand, upperclassmen flock in droves to recruiting events to schmooze, learn about prospective careers, and hopefully pick up a few business cards along the way. Around 1,100 students are currently participating in the on-campus recruiting program, according to Director of the Office of Career Services [OCS] William Wright-Swadel. Before the end of the year, that number is likely to swell to 1,600 or more as curious sophomores and freshmen, in search of internships and information, jump into the mix, he added. “It’s seductive,” Wright-Swadel said...
...Wright's gift to Australian literature is Desperance. A fictional port town bypassed by history and even the tides, which have left it high and dry, Desperance embodies the roots of its name: despair and hope (esprance in French). Wright says Desperance could stand for any Australian town, or Australia itself. And it's her uncanny ear for the particularities of local language and eye for striking symbolism that could carry Carpentaria into the classics sections of bookshelves in years to come. There it would sit comfortably alongside Xavier Herbert's fictional study of Australia's Top End, Capricornia...
...disenchanted souls (and later Angel Day) to Dreaming sites across the state. Around them swirl stories large and small, glorious and grotesque, of epic quests and seeping social wounds, but cauterizing it all is the writer's earthy humor. "I've had a lifetime of stories and humor," says Wright, who was raised on her grandmother's tales of the bush, "and it's one of our strongest points, I think, as a people. It's one of the things that keep us going...
Carpentaria nearly went nowhere. With its unwieldy size and unconventional voice, it was rejected by most mainstream publishers, and Wright was almost resigned to seeing it languish "archived in the Carpentaria Land Council office forever." Another laugh. "It was a brave publisher who took it up." Others might say clever. Established in 1995 as a bridge between commercial houses and academia, Giramondo's output has been small but sagacious. Peter Castro's novel The Garden Book and John Hughes' memoir The Idea of Home are but two literary hybrids that have monopolized Australia's recent prize lists. Says publisher...
...Wright is a case in point. Look into the face of this Aboriginal advocate and mother of two, and an even more fascinating story unfolds. Wright's great-grandfather was a Chinese market gardener who was introduced to her great-grandmother by the pastoralist Frank Hann. "The story goes that she and another little girl were found up a tree," says Wright, who has long speculated on how she came to be there and on the family's Chinese ancestry: "How do the spirits connect when people come from other countries?" It's a question she'll explore...